Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Mutualism supports biodiversity when the direct competition is weak

  • Alberto Pascual-García,
  • Ugo Bastolla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14326
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Theoretical ecologists have made disparate predictions regarding the relationship between mutualism and stability. Here, Pascual-García and Bastolla develop a theoretical framework showing that model mutualistic interactions promote structural stability when competition is weaker than a threshold depending on network architecture.